§ Mr. SteelTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if his Department has authorised Consarc Calcarb to export equipment and technology necessary to manufacture fibrous carbon bonded thermal insulation to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkIt is the Department's general practice not to comment on individual cases. No licences to export to the USSR such insulating material or the technology to manufacture it have been granted to any company since controls were introduced in November 1986.